Environment

Situation

The GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) has a vulnerability in the way that it parses a weekly calendar recurrence (RRULE) variable within a received VCALENDAR message. The vulnerability could could potentially allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of GWIA.

This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Anonymous working with Verisign's iDefense Labs (http://www.idefense.com), V-0r6xx5bqyc

CVE-2011-2662

Resolution

Previous versions of GroupWise are likely also vulnerable but are no longer supported. Customers on earlier versions of GroupWise should, at a minimum, upgrade their GWIAs and associated Domains to version 8.02HP3 in order to secure their system.

Status

Security Alert

Bug Number

707527

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